Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-02-04 | Page 2 | High Prices of Meat Continue in New York

IM HIGH PRICES OF MEAT m COHTIIIOE IN HEW YOHK Packers Instruct Boston Agents ' $J to "Get Every Possible -r4;ia ' Cent." ' J I NEW YORK. Fob. 3. Meat was still on ' I '"'"J I tho rlse 1,1 ,ocal markets todny. R ' i T! I tailors in mnny sections of the city, os- f yk peclally In the poorer Quarters, reported " 'iT I a f:l,lm& ofC 01 l'rm one-third to ono- 1 ' a, ln sales. Shipments have been cur- ' 1;! tailed, tending to adjust the supply to tho , ' . -.V.' demand. Investigation aroused by the it , ; I' agitation against high prices and the i '; , nicat abstontlon movement continues, '-'-h Three hundred cans of "liquid eggs,'' i . -"l-'C such as are used by bakers, were seized 1" a cold-storage warehouse by federal .', V Inspectors and condemned today. 4 4- llotelkecpcrs complained that soma of ;.. '-i! tli eh "strictly fresh" eggs, supposed to 8 coino from near-by farms, had been found penciled with the names of girls who live In Ohio and farther west. .hL-;t The price of eggs receded today, but m the wholesale price of almost everything " else eatable advanced. Fresh blueiish ,-Jj. ff wore dearer than the choicest steaks and V-iZ about double the price of roast beef. All ' f i other fish advanced sharply. Lamb and pork advanced a cent a pound. Beof . ',.H jumped 2 cents, and shipments from the west wore reported ln diminishing vol- J" unio. . , . West side butchers, who supply the .'' better trade, wero asking from 1 to :i i-'vi; cents a pound more than the same cuts ' y bring In London markets, which supply , ' the better trade there with American H beef bought on the hoof In Chicago,